West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each fhip ( the fleet consisted of one hundred and eighty fail ) . We then with difficulty got ...
... foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner they paid their devoirs to each fhip ( the fleet consisted of one hundred and eighty fail ) . We then with difficulty got ...
الصفحة 16
... avoid fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with difagreeable fores : I have heard of many young men's legs legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to 16 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... avoid fcratching ; and those who don't take care of their nails , foon have their legs inflamed with difagreeable fores : I have heard of many young men's legs legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to 16 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 24
... foon as poffible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perfpiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet , though you be far from any houfe , take off your shoes and ftockings , wash them and let them ...
... foon as poffible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perfpiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet , though you be far from any houfe , take off your shoes and ftockings , wash them and let them ...
الصفحة 48
... foon as it is full , and tempered with a fmall quantity of Bristol lime and lye - water , the black boiler cries out , " Fia ! gran - coppa ! " i . e . Fire ! grand copper ! at which vociferation , a blazing fire is inftantly put to the ...
... foon as it is full , and tempered with a fmall quantity of Bristol lime and lye - water , the black boiler cries out , " Fia ! gran - coppa ! " i . e . Fire ! grand copper ! at which vociferation , a blazing fire is inftantly put to the ...
الصفحة 52
... foon as the vat which receives the fkimmings from the boiling - houfe ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool , from thence let run into the cifterns , or vats ; the drofs which remains in ...
... foon as the vat which receives the fkimmings from the boiling - houfe ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool , from thence let run into the cifterns , or vats ; the drofs which remains in ...
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